Biotech & Medtech
Biotech & Medtech news — Monday 02 November 2026
28 stories from 4 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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4 Notable Health Tech Funding Announcements in October
MedCity News
Health tech companies made several major funding announcements in October. Here is a list of some of the biggest funding rounds. The post 4 Notable Health Tech Funding Announcements in October appeared first on MedCity News .
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MedCity FemFwd: The Gaps in Endometriosis Care
MedCity News
In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Rani Aravamudhan, senior medical director of Artemis at Nomi Health. We discuss Nomi Health’s new research on endometriosis. The post MedCity FemFwd: The Gaps in Endometriosis Care appeared first on…
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Inovio’s DNA-Based Immunotherapy Lands Speedy FDA Nod for Rare Type of Tumor
MedCity News
Inovio’s Voceryq will compete with a Precigen product that last year became the first FDA-approved drug for recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, or RRP. While the two immunotherapies carry the same $460,000 list price, Inovio executives…
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Washington state resident dies from bird flu following exposure to infected cattle
STAT News
NEW YORK — A person in Washington state has died from complications of the bird flu, the first such U.S. death in a year. The Yakima County resident, who had previous health conditions, was exposed to avian influenza at a dairy with…
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7 Potential Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior Authorization Experiment
MedCity News
The federal government is testing whether artificial intelligence can help Medicare identify unnecessary medical care, speed up the prior authorization process, and reduce healthcare spending. But a new report based on evidence recovered…
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Karyopharm, deep in debt, to sell itself in bankruptcy
BioPharma Dive
The parent of cell therapy maker Gamida Cell will be the lead bidder in a court-supervised auction of Karyopharm, which recently cut a forbearance deal to push off debt payments.
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STAT+: The health care affordability midterms, and billing urgent care as ER
STAT News
This is the online version of STAT’s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc. Sign up here . A friend just introduced me to Krillion , a quick quiz game that rewards rare answers. Incredibly fun. Give it a try, and tell me your score…
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STAT+: Psilocybin’s lasting benefits prove elusive in mice
STAT News
Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Wishing you a colorful Día de los Muertos. Remembering my grandmother, in particular, a zoology professor who…
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Integris Health to Join Risant Health as Health System Dealmaking Stays Active
MedCity News
As health system dealmaking stays steady in 2026, Integris Health is joining Risant Health to accelerate value-based care. The partnership represents an integration of Risant Health’s capabilities into Integris’ existing system, rather…
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STAT+: FDA OKs generic HIV prevention shot, widening access for lower-income countries
STAT News
After months of anticipation, the Food and Drug Administration gave tentative approval to Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories to make a generic version of a groundbreaking HIV prevention medicine , a key step in widening access for dozens of low- and…
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CMS Is Regulating the Wrong Thing — Here’s How to Fix Remote Patient Monitoring Without Losing the Care
MedCity News
Why should Medicare determine who is qualified to provide remote monitoring by asking who employs the nurse, rather than who is accountable for the patient’s care? The post CMS Is Regulating the Wrong Thing — Here’s How to Fix Remote…
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Keytruda biosimilars are coming — but they face an uphill battle
BioPharma Dive
A patent cliff is fast approaching for Merck’s flagship blockbuster, but the deck might be stacked against its biosimilars gaining widespread traction.
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about payments to Russian middlemen, a possible Dupixent rival, and more
STAT News
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was relaxing and refreshing, because that oh-so familiar routine of Zoom meetings, deadlines, and bustling about has predictably returned. Not…
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How Innovation in BTK Inhibitor Development Is Improving Treatment Outcomes
MedCity News
[Sponsored] BTK inhibitor has become an important treatment option for certain B-cell malignancies. The post How Innovation in BTK Inhibitor Development Is Improving Treatment Outcomes appeared first on MedCity News .
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Mental Health Care Was Never Built for Everyone — AI Won’t Fix That
MedCity News
Companies aren’t slowing down to ask if AI is ready for mental health; they’re racing to build it in. Encoding the same unexamined standards into these tools means repeating the systemic issues marginalized groups have lived with for far…
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Earnings roundup: AstraZeneca’s cost cuts, Alnylam’s slump and Regeneron’s resilience
BioPharma Dive
AstraZeneca will “redeploy resources” through a new restructuring program. Meanwhile, Alnylam shares sold off on fears surrounding a top drug and investors rewarded Regeneron for a record quarter.
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A STAT reporter on covering MRT as an experimental fertility treatment
STAT News
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here . Good morning! We’ve got something a little different for you today – an amazing new story from Megan Molteni, and also a…
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Breaking the silos: What effective scenario modeling looks like in 2026 and beyond
BioPharma Dive
Explore how integrated scenario modeling helps pharma leaders navigate pricing uncertainty and the complexity of global launches.
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Women travel thousands of miles for a reproductive moonshot. Scientists say they’ve been misled
STAT News
TIRANA, Albania — As you drive from the Tirana International Airport toward the heart of the Albanian capital, car dealerships and shopping center-lined freeways give way to tidy rows of Communist-era housing blocks, their concrete walls…
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STAT+: Coming readout of Kymera eczema trial is a high-stakes moment in a bid to rival Dupixent
STAT News
Over the past decade, Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent has become the top-selling drug in immunology, bringing in tens of billions in revenue while transforming outcomes for the 1.4 million patients currently on the therapy for conditions…
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Opinion: The economics of the U.S. health care system are broken
STAT News
On my recent travels, I met a healthy, active man in his early 60s who runs a small business. This year, his family’s monthly premium reached nearly $5,000 — more than a quarter of his pre‑tax income. He made the difficult choice to keep…
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Are you pursuing MRT as a treatment for infertility?
STAT News
Over the last eight months, STAT has investigated the ways MRT is marketed as a fertility treatment for older women, despite scant evidence it works. The procedure, popularly called mitochondrial replacement techniques or “three-parent…
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Opinion: Cancer patients are often pressured to end a pregnancy early. They shouldn’t be
STAT News
Early in my career as a maternal fetal medicine specialist, I met two pregnant women who had ovarian cancer. One of them was expecting twins. They were introduced to be each other’s support network during and after the pregnancy, often…
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Building functional and mechanistic models of cortical computation based on canonical cell type connectivity
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2504.03031v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neuronal circuits of the cerebral cortex are the structural basis of mammalian cognition. The same qualitative components and connectivity motifs are repeated across functionally…
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A genetic algorithm for student academic resource allocation
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2607.23316v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The optimal allocation of academic resources to individual students is essential for addressing learner diversity and fostering equitable educational outcomes. Within the framework of the…
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Input-dependent Neuromodulation Enhances Mixed-Signal Neuromorphic Hardware
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.41265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gating mechanisms allow a fixed neural network to adapt its computation to the current input by dynamically modulating its effective parameters. In the brain, neuromodulation uses this…
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Memory and Recall of Color Images Using Neural Networks-1 - The Cue-Ball Model based on the Associative Memory Mechanism -
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.41108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a neural network model for storing and recalling color images of different sizes using the Cue BallRecall Net systems [1,2,3,4,5]. The Cue Ball system consists of a Recall…
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Local Budget Benefits, Population Commitment, and Solver Performance: A DGO Case Study with Controlled DE Transfer
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.41099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An evaluated candidate can improve a local search step, alter the population used by later steps, and affect a solver's final result. We distinguish these three questions using Da Gou Gun…